Sentences with phrase «new climate change regulations»

Southern has no interest in acting as the poster child for Obama's new climate change regulations.

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The new measures would build on a number of energy — and environment - related executive orders signed by Trump seeking to gut most of the climate change regulations put in place by predecessor President Barack Obama.

What makes climate change different, they say, is that there are five new variables: uncertain and fragmented environmental legislation and regulations; the reactions of capital and insurance markets to emerging business opportunities (and matching risks) posed by climate change; stakeholder activism; pending litigation and the rapidly evolving scientific debate over proper responses to climate change.

The former regional administrator of the EPA under President Obama, Judith Enck, says the new head of the EPA under President Trump, Scott Pruitt, threatens to roll back major environmental regulations, including climate change actions and pollution protections.

The new arrangement «can potentially give enforcement teeth to climate regulations,» says Ranping Song, a climate change expert with the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C..

Salazar said he would also be open to broader changes to ESA regulations — since the act faces new challenges as more species are protected due to threats from global climate change.

«Acknowledging the reality of global warming or climate change may lead to new government regulations on businesses, which goes against core conservative values,» Schuldt said.

New fishery regulations based on science are needed in the Caribbean to give coral reefs a fighting chance against climate change, according to an international study published today.

President Obama has had to resort to executive steps on climate change, like writing new carbon dioxide regulations, because the path to even modest legislative solutions (as on so many other issues) is blocked by the inevitability of filibusters under the the 60 - vote supermajority in the Senate.

Rick Perry has kept himself busy since announcing his intention to run for president — after calling for a moratorium on all new regulations and referring to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke as «treasonous», he publicly derided climate change as a hoax perpetrated by scheming, data - manipulating scientists.

In recent years, Bezdek has been very vocal in his opposition to new U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions and argues that excessive amounts of C02 are good for the planet and that the scientfic consensus on climate change is a «manufactured myth.»

The announcement by Peabody came as a result of a two - year investigation by the New York Attorney General Office for not disclosing the impacts that climate change regulation would have on its business to investors.

As the new Ceres report notes: «ExxonMobil does not analyze or quantify the effect on the company and on shareholder value of any plausible greenhouse gas regulatory scenarios; in fact, the company states that «it is impossible today to assess the potential implications for shareholder value from initiatives to address climate change,» in part because no governments have established definitive regulations for the 2008 - 2012 Kyoto period or for post-2012.

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The letter included a subpoena issued under New York state law, which seeks information and documents relating to the Company's analysis of the risks associated with climate change and possible climate change legislation or regulations, and its disclosure of such risks to investors.

Not allowing facts to get in the way of its agenda, the Obama EPA just released its new power plant regulations, which will effectively end the use of coal in new power plants and force consumers to pay higher electricity rates, predicated on coal's contribution to climate change.

Mark Lewis, the highly - regarded Barclays analyst, has been named as the new head of research of a climate change think - tank, becoming the latest high - profile departure from investment banking research as regulation overhauls the industry in Europe.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is the nation's first program to use an innovative market - based mechanism to cap and cost - effectively reduce the carbon dioxide emissions that cause the climate to change, and New York State took a leadership role in adopting regulations that lowered the emissions cap.

As the controversy over the proposed rules continues to unfold, two important questions loom: What is the likelihood that these new regulations will actually be put into effect, and how big an impact would they have on the fight to slow climate change?

The Capitol dome looms behind smokestacks of a coal - fired power plant in Washington, D.C. Obama announced plans Tuesday to issue new emissions regulations for U.S. power plants as part of a wider strategy to address climate change.

When US President Obama announced revised regulations on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from US power plants on August 3, 2015 in a laudable speech supporting the new rules, as he predicted opponents of US climate change policy strongly attacked the new rules on grounds that they would wreck the US economy, destroy jobs, and raise electricity prices.

Beyond pricing instruments, the other approaches include regulation under the Clean Air Act, energy policies not targeted exclusively at climate change, public nuisance litigation, and NIMBY and other public interventions to block permits for new fossil - fuel related investments.

The president promised to take action to stop climate change if legislators didn't, but the new EPA regulations are likely to encounter a stiff fight.

Regulations, the Democrats were certain, would get them the climate change program they favored, while a new president, reckoned the Republicans, would end all this climate - change nonsense.

A new Media Matters analysis found that when corporate broadcast TV news programs reported on climate change last year, they spent 79 percent of the time on statements or actions by the Trump administration — and even that included little coverage of efforts to roll back the Clean Power Plan and other climate regulations.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is the nation's first program to use an innovative market - based mechanism to cap and cost - effectively reduce the carbon dioxide emissions that cause the climate to change, and New York State took a leadership role in adopting regulations that lowered the emissions cap.

Americans who are skeptical about climate change engage in personal behavior that is more friendly to the environment than climate alarmists, who support increased government regulation, a new study has found.

At the root of the global climate change debate is an intractable claim on the part of those who would readily cripple our economy with new regulations and attack our personal freedoms with intrusion into our homes, automobiles and offices.

Recently there has been media interest in how large corporations like ExxonMobil address the potential for new regulations addressing climate change risk when drawing up future business plans.

In the coal miner's case, even though the job is ultimately going to be lost for economic reasons, some triggering event is likely to control the exact timing, and that event may be the start of a new government regulation to limit climate change.

President Obama has been saying and doing all the right things when it comes to climate change lately, penning a greenhouse gas reduction deal with China and his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposing new regulations for coal plants that would see sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

The DOE's graphic and facts about the grid and how it works are especially helpful now that new regulations may soon demand that electric power be generated with fewer fossil fuels and be used more efficiently in an effort to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change.

Tighter federal regulations for climate change and clean air have ensured that virtually no new coal plants will get built in coming years.

A new deal on climate change would translate to new taxes and regulations on these companies» primary products, such as coal, which is 14 percent of sales as of June 30 this year for BHP.

To back up its pledges, Mexico included in its formal submission the following instruments: a national strategy on climate change, carbon tax, national emissions and emissions reductions registry, energy reform laws and regulations, and on - going process for new set of standards and regulations.

To minimise the risks of heat stress that are most pronounced in large cities due to the urban heat - island effect in summer (Kalnay and Cai, 2003) urban planning should consider: reducing the heat island in summer, the heat load on buildings, cooling load and high night - time temperature, and taking climate change into account in planning new buildings and setting up new regulations on buildings and urban development.

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DEBORAH AMOS: These corporate leaders, motivated by the reality of climate change, the fear of state - by - state regulation and the hope of new business opportunities, wanted the federal government to impose mandatory limits on carbon.

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About the Regional Greenhouse Gas initiative (RGGI) The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is the nation's first program to use an innovative market - based mechanism to cap and cost - effectively reduce the carbon dioxide emissions that cause the climate to change, and New York State took a leadership role in adopting regulations that lowered the emissions cap.

EPA's finding renouncing the Obama standards says new information has changed the math for how much we can expect the regulations to save consumers and benefit the climate.

renouncing the Obama standards says new information has changed the math for how much we can expect the regulations to save consumers and benefit the climate.

The New York Times previously reported on the Chamber's efforts to combat President Obama's climate change regulations.

«Any one of the several new or likely regulatory initiatives for CO2 emissions from power plants — including state carbon controls, E.P.A.'s regulations under the Clean Air Act, or the enactment of federal global warming legislation — would add a significant cost to carbon - intensive coal generation,» the letters said... Selective disclosure of favorable information or omission of unfavorable information concerning climate change is misleading.

During Obama's second term, it's expected that she will oversee far more sweeping climate change regulations, which would restrict greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing coal - fired power plants — the nation's top contributor to global warming pollution.

Why else would activists be denouncing the decision of statistics celebrity Nate Silver to add a University of Colorado professor to his new website's list of contributing writers — a professor who agrees that greenhouse emissions are warming the Earth, favors a carbon tax and, in his words, has «supported what President Obama has done to combat climate change, including stronger regulations on efficiency [and] power plants... ``?

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) forthcoming climate change regulations for new and existing electricity generating units have been appropriately labeled the «war on coal,» [1] because the proposed limits for carbon dioxide emissions would essentially prohibit the construction of new coal - fired power plants and force existing ones into early retirement.

Trump has repeatedly promised to «free up the coal» and save this struggling industry that faces both economic competition from cheaper natural gas (also called shale gas) as well as new regulations designed to reduce air toxins and carbon emissions linked to climate change.

So it seems California will be able to make the case that even if its new standard is only slightly better (and it certainly is better), every bit helps, and since California is likely to face severe impacts from climate change, it has extraordinary and compelling reasons to implement more stringent tailpipe regulations.

The state of Texas today sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a federal appeals court in Washington DC, claiming four new regulations imposed by the EPA are based on the «thoroughly discredited» findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and are «factually flawed,» 1200 WOAI news reports.